NVIDIA quietly outs GeForce MX450 GPU for laptops

NVIDIA is refreshing its entry-level discrete GPU for thin and light laptops. According to the new product page for the NVIDIA GeForce MX450 graphics processor, the new GPU supports GDDR5 and GDDR6 memory and PCIe 4.0. There aren’t many other te…

NVIDIA is refreshing its entry-level discrete GPU for thin and light laptops. According to the new product page for the NVIDIA GeForce MX450 graphics processor, the new GPU supports GDDR5 and GDDR6 memory and PCIe 4.0. There aren’t many other technical details listed, but we probably won’t have to wait long to see laptops with […]

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The big Delta IV Heavy rocket will try to loft a classified mission tonight

Ready to see that pre-liftoff fireball.

Is anyone ready to see a heavy-lift rocket take flight? Especially one that creates a giant fireball mere seconds before liftoff?

United Launch Alliance's largest booster, the Delta IV Heavy, has not launched since January, 2019. Now the big rocket—the second-most-powerful launch vehicle in the world after SpaceX's Falcon Heavy—is back on the pad to loft a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Liftoff of this "NROL-44" mission is scheduled for 2:12am EDT (06:12 UTC) on Thursday from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The weather forecast for liftoff is favorable, with only a slight concern for a chance of violating the cumulus cloud rules. Forecasters predict an 80-percent chance of good weather at the launch opportunity.

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Daily Deals (8-26-2020)

Amazon is selling a Lenovo convertible laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 4500U processor and 16GB of RAM for $600 today, and Samsung’s Galaxy Flex Alpha laptop with a QLED display is on sale for $700 and up. But if you just need to upgrade the RAM on y…

Amazon is selling a Lenovo convertible laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 4500U processor and 16GB of RAM for $600 today, and Samsung’s Galaxy Flex Alpha laptop with a QLED display is on sale for $700 and up. But if you just need to upgrade the RAM on your existing PC, there’s also an Amazon […]

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Your iPhone copy of Fortnite is about to become worthless

But some eBay buyers have paid huge markups for iPhones with pre-installed copies.

That soon-to-be-useless <em>Fortnite</em> icon has been worth a lot of money to some eBay buyers in recent days.

Enlarge / That soon-to-be-useless Fortnite icon has been worth a lot of money to some eBay buyers in recent days. (credit: eBay)

Since Apple pulled Fortnite down from the iOS App Store earlier this month, some eBay users have apparently paid thousands of dollars for iPhones that had a playable, pre-installed copy of the game. Starting tomorrow, though, those devices will be no different from any other iPhones.

"Apple is blocking Fortnite updates and new installs on the App Store and has said they will terminate our ability to develop Fortnite for Apple devices," Epic wrote in an FAQ update this morning. "As a result, Fortnite’s newly released Chapter 2 - Season 4 update (v14.00), will not release on iOS and macOS on August 27."

In other words, Fortnite will finally be fully unplayable on iOS devices starting Thursday. Android users will still be able to install and play the latest update by downloading it directly from Epic or from The Samsung Galaxy Store on compatible devices.

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In alarming move, CDC says people exposed to COVID-19 do not need testing [Updated]

It also updated guidance on how service workers should deal with violent COVIDiots.

Huge facade for CDC headquarters against a beautiful sky.

Enlarge / Signage outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images)

In a mindboggling and dangerous move, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week quietly reversed its recommendation on COVID-19 testing for those exposed to the virus. Now, the CDC says that exposed but symptomless people do not need to be tested.

The change immediately alarmed and outraged public health and infectious disease experts. It is well established that SARS-CoV-2—the pandemic coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19—can cause completely asymptomatic infections in some and spread from other infected people before they develop symptoms (so-called "pre-symptomatic transmission"). In fact, some modeling studies have suggested that pre-symptomatic transmission may account for nearly half, or even more, of SARS-CoV-2 spread.

That information previously spurred the CDC to recommend testing for anyone that was known to have—or even suspected to have—close contact with an infected person (that is, be within six feet for 15 or more minutes).

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The LG Wing is a “T” shaped, dual-screen smartphone

We have foldables and side-by-side displays, now how about a flip-out display?

Well, you can't accuse LG of being afraid to try something new. LG's next phone is the completely wild-looking LG Wing, a dual-screen design that looks like it spins open into a "T" shape thanks to a rotating hinge. Android Authority scored a 10-second video of the device that provides solid proof that this crazy idea actually exists.

The first news of the Wing phone came from Korean site ETNews earlier this year, which reported an October launch date. The site only had a mockup of the device at the time, which now seems spot on. The report says the device has a 6.8-inch main display, a 4-inch secondary display with a nearly 1:1 aspect ratio, and a Snapdragon 765G SoC. That would give it the same display and SoC as the LG Velvet.

The top and bottom halves of the phone are the same size, so it looks like the idea here is that the phone should fold up into a normal smartphone shape. LG basically built this design before on a feature phone, the LG VX9400, which showed up as Tony Stark's first phone in 2008's Iron Man. 

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Looks like that LG Wing dual-screen phone with perpendicular displays is real

Rumor has it that LG is working on a dual-screen smartphone where the second screen hangs out behind the display when you’re not using it and twists out when you do. Now it looks like there’s a good chance that rumor is true. The LG Wing d…

Rumor has it that LG is working on a dual-screen smartphone where the second screen hangs out behind the display when you’re not using it and twists out when you do. Now it looks like there’s a good chance that rumor is true. The LG Wing doesn’t unfold like a book the way the Microsoft […]

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